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PhD Human Development Cornell University
Masters Human Development Cornell University
Bachelors Psychology St. Lawrence University

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According to Wikipedia, James Garbarino is an author and professor at Loyola University Chicago. He has specialized in studying what causes violence in children, how they cope with it and how to rehabilitate them. Garbarino has served as consultant or adviser to a wide range of organizations, including the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, the National Institute for Mental Health, the American Medical Association, the National Black Child Development Institute, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the FBI. In addition, Garbarino's work is associated with the School of Human Ecology at Cornell University under the leadership of Urie Bronfenbrenner who began Head Start programs in the US.

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James Garbarino's Published Works

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The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design: by Urie Bronfenbrenner Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979, 330 + p. (1980) (9617)
High-risk neighborhoods and high-risk families: the human ecology of child maltreatment. (1980) (603)
The human ecology of child maltreatment: A conceptual model for research. (1977) (529)
Children and families in the social environment (1982) (498)
Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment (1995) (488)
What children can tell us about living in danger. (1991) (416)
Child maltreatment as a community problem. (1992) (392)
Lost boys: Why our sons turn violent and how we can save them (2000) (387)
A preliminary study of some ecological correlates of child abuse: the impact of socioeconomic stress on mothers. (1976) (327)
Defining the comminity context for parent-child relations: the correlates of child maltreatment. (1978) (323)
The effects of political violence on Palestinian children's behavior problems: a risk accumulation model. (1996) (312)
Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence (1992) (282)
No Place to Be a Child: Growing Up in a War Zone (1991) (266)
Understanding Abusive Families (1980) (255)
The Psychologically Battered Child (1986) (231)
An ecological perspective on the effects of violence on children (2001) (223)
Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention: The Human Ecology of Early Risk (2000) (194)
Social support networks : informal helping in the human services (1983) (153)
Living in the war zone: mothers and young children in a public housing development. (1989) (141)
Risk and Protective Factors for Homophobic Bullying in Schools: An Application of the Social–Ecological Framework (2012) (141)
The Psychologically Battered Child: Strategies for Identification, Assessment, and Intervention (1987) (135)
What children can tell us: Eliciting, interpreting, and evaluating information from children. (1989) (125)
The Impact of Anticipated Reward upon Cross-Age Tutoring (1975) (123)
Children and families in the social environment, 2nd ed. (1992) (113)
Adolescent Development: An Ecological Perspective (1985) (109)
Families at risk for destructive parent-child relations in adolescence. (1984) (103)
What Children Can Tell Us (1989) (102)
Born of war: Protecting children of sexual violence survivors in conflict zones (2010) (101)
And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence (2001) (98)
Mitigating the effects of gun violence on children and youth. (2002) (97)
Social-Cognitive Mediators of the Association between Community Violence Exposure and Aggressive Behavior. (2009) (97)
The Meaning of Poverty in the World of Children (1992) (83)
The Significance of Ethnic and Cultural Differences in Child Maltreatment. (1983) (83)
Child Neglect: The Family with a Hole in the Middle (1999) (76)
The social maps of children approaching adolescence: Studying the ecology of youth development (1978) (75)
Some thoughts on school size and its effects on adolescent development (1980) (71)
Understanding Abusive Families: An Ecological Approach to Theory and Practice (1999) (70)
Social Cognition as a Mediator of the Influence of Family and Community Violence on Adolescent Development: Implications for Intervention (2004) (69)
The elusive “crime” of emotional abuse (1978) (68)
The price of privacy in the social dynamics of child abuse. (1977) (65)
Can we measure success in preventing child abuse? Issues in policy, programming and research. (1986) (65)
Preventing childhood injury: developmental and mental health issues. (1988) (64)
The stress of being a poor child in America. (1998) (63)
The American War Zone: What Children Can Tell Us About Living with Violence (1995) (62)
SPIRITUAL CHALLENGES TO CHILDREN FACING VIOLENT TRAUMA (1996) (61)
A Review of Bullying Prevention and Intervention in South Korean Schools: An Application of the Social–Ecological Framework (2014) (58)
Children's response to community violence: what do we know? (1993) (57)
A systematic review of research on religion and spirituality in the Journal of Traumatic Stress: 1990–1999 (2003) (55)
Coping with The Consequences of Living in Danger: The Case of Palestinian Children and Youth (1994) (53)
Children's response to a sexual abuse prevention program: a study of the Spiderman comic. (1987) (52)
Children and the Dark Side of Human Experience: Confronting Global Realities and Rethinking Child Development (2008) (52)
The effects of community violence on children. (1999) (51)
Identifying the missing links in the study of latchkey children. (1982) (51)
Child maltreatment: Troubled youth, troubled families: the dynamics of adolescent maltreatment (1989) (48)
Predicting long-term outcomes for children affected by HIV and AIDS: perspectives from the scientific study of children's development. (2014) (48)
Educating Children in a Socially Toxic Environment. (1997) (42)
Neighborhood-based programs. (1998) (40)
The Role of Neighborhood in the Development of Aggression in Urban African American Youth: A Multilevel Analysis (2015) (35)
Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal (1980) (35)
Identifying the sexually abused deaf child: The otolaryngologist's role (1986) (32)
Growing up in a socially toxic environment: life for children and families in the 1990s. (1995) (31)
Words Can Hurt Forever. (2010) (29)
Protecting children from abuse and neglect : developing and maintaining effective support systems for families (1980) (28)
The Soul of Fatherhood (2000) (27)
Emotionally anesthetized: media violence induces neural changes during emotional face processing. (2015) (26)
Value transmission in an ecological context: The high-risk neighborhood. (1997) (24)
Not all bad treatment is psychological maltreatment. (2011) (23)
Ecological Perspective on Child Well-Being (2014) (23)
Posttraumatic Stress, Family Functioning, and Externalizing in Adolescents Exposed to Violence: A Moderated Mediation Model (2018) (23)
The Hidden Dimensions: Profound Sorrow and Buried Potential in Violent Youth (2007) (23)
Can American Families Afford the Luxury of Childhood (1986) (23)
The Incidence and Prevalence of Child Maltreatment (1989) (22)
Toward a Sustainable Society: An Economic, Social and Environmental Agenda for Our Children's Future (1992) (21)
Parents Under Siege: Why You Are the Solution, Not the Problem in Your Child's Life (2001) (21)
Not all bad developmental outcomes are the result of child abuse (1991) (21)
Successful schools and competent students (1981) (20)
Why are adolescents violent? (2009) (20)
Parenting and Public Policy (2019) (20)
Reinventing Fatherhood (1993) (19)
Adjustment of Unsupervised Children in a Rural Setting (1985) (19)
Children and Families in the Social Environment : Modern Applications of Social Work (2017) (19)
Note on the problem of construct validity in assessing the usefulness of child maltreatment report data. (1978) (18)
Special Children, Special Risks: The Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities (1987) (18)
What Can the School Do on Behalf of the Psychologically Maltreated Child and the Community. (1987) (18)
Community violence and children: Preventing exposure and reducing harm. (2004) (18)
Linking social--environmental risk factors with aggression in suburban adolescents: the role of social--cognitive mediators (2013) (18)
Cool, callous and in control: superior inhibitory control in frequent players of video games with violent content (2017) (18)
Coordinated and evidence-based policy and practice for protecting children outside of family care. (2012) (17)
Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases (2015) (16)
Miller's Children: Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us (2018) (15)
What we know about child maltreatment (1983) (15)
Challenges we face in understanding children and war: a personal essay. (1993) (15)
An approach to assessing ‘accountability’ in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Implications for School Psychology (2014) (14)
The maltreatment of youth. (1997) (14)
Psychological child maltreatment. A developmental view. (1993) (13)
ACEs in the Criminal Justice System. (2017) (13)
Child Abuse and Juvenile Delinquency: What are The Links? (2017) (12)
The spiritual challenge of violent trauma. (1996) (12)
Meeting the needs of mistreated youths (1980) (12)
Can reflections on 20 years of searching. (1996) (12)
The Role of Schools in Socialization to Adulthood (1978) (12)
The Role of the School in the Human Ecology of Child Maltreatment (1979) (11)
The Protective Effect of Kinship Involvement on the Adjustment of Youth in Foster Care (2016) (11)
Violent children: where do we point the finger of blame? (2001) (11)
The Ecological Perspective on the Human Rights of Children (2010) (11)
Changing hospital childbirth practices: a developmental perspective on prevention of child maltreatment. (1980) (11)
HARDINESS SCRIPTS: HIGH‐ACHIEVING AFRICAN AMERICAN BOYS IN A CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL NAVIGATING COMMUNITY VIOLENCE AND SCHOOL (2016) (11)
Who Owns the Children? An Ecological Perspective on Public Policy Affecting Children. (1982) (10)
10. Youth in Dangerous Environments: Coping With the Consequences (1990) (10)
Corporate self-reliance and the sustainable society (1982) (10)
What kind of society permits child abuse (1980) (10)
Foreward: Pathways from childhood trauma to adolescent violence and delinquency. (2002) (9)
Youth helping youth in cases of maltreatment of adolescents. (1978) (9)
Screening Neighborhoods for Intervention (1978) (8)
Supporting Parents in a Socially Toxic Environment (1998) (8)
Children and Terrorism and commentaries (2015) (7)
The Meaning and Implications of School Success (1976) (7)
The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation: Leveraging Resilience for Life Change (2011) (7)
Commentary: Child maltreatment and the mass media (1985) (6)
Commentary: an approach to assessing "accountability" in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. (2011) (6)
Where Does Social Support Fit Into Optimizing Human Development and Preventing Dysfunction (1986) (6)
Maltreatment of young children with disabilities (1989) (6)
Assessing the neighborhood context of child maltreatment (1979) (6)
Child Welfare and the Economic Crisis. (1984) (6)
High schools can be "toxic". (2002) (5)
Protecting children and animals from abuse: a trans-species concept of caring (1999) (5)
Troubled Youth, Troubled Families: Understanding Families at Risk for Adolescent Maltreatment (2017) (5)
Using and building family strengths to promote youth development (2004) (5)
CHILDREN IN A VIOLENT WORLD A Metaphysical Perspective (2005) (5)
Resilience in the Lives of Children of War (2013) (5)
Urban Environments and Urban Children. (1980) (5)
Corporal Punishment in Ecological Perspective (2005) (4)
The Right to a Healthy Social Environment: Protecting Children from Social Toxicity (2010) (4)
The perspective of evil in understanding and treating child abuse (1981) (4)
Early Investment in Cognitive Development as a Strategy for Reducing Poverty (1989) (4)
A child's right to a healthy environment / (2010) (4)
What does living in a democracy mean for kids? (2011) (4)
The Adolescent Runaway (2017) (4)
Let's Talk About Living in a World With Violence: An Activity Book for School-Age Children (1993) (3)
Long-Term Effects of War on Children (2008) (3)
CHAPTER 8 – Violence to the Family (1983) (3)
Enhancing adolescent development through social policy (1993) (3)
Coping with resilience. (2002) (3)
Latchkey children and their parents: Lynette Long and Thomas Long. Arbor House Publishing Company, New York, NY., 1983. 316 pp., $7.95 (1985) (3)
The issue is human quality: In praise of children (1979) (3)
Socioeconomic forces and the problem of counting in understanding child abuse and neglect: commentary on "The great recession and the risk for child maltreatment". (2013) (3)
The Developmental Impact of Community Violence (2011) (2)
Review of Damaged parents: An anatomy of neglect. (1982) (2)
Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn to Violence and How We Can Save Them. (1999) (2)
The positive psychology of personal transformation (2011) (2)
Trouble in River City. (1991) (2)
Comprar Understanding Abusive Families: An Ecological Approach to Theory and Practice | John Eckenrode | 9780787910051 | Wiley (2007) (2)
Finding Meaning in a Socially Toxic Environment. (1998) (2)
Vulnerable children: Protection and social reintegration of child soldiers and youth members of gangs. (2020) (1)
Alienation and Educational Institutions. Final Report to the New York State Assembly Scientific Staff. (1973) (1)
Our Response to the Attack on America: What Can It Teach Children about Understanding and Revenge?. (2002) (1)
The Child’s Right to a Spiritual Life (2020) (1)
A protective service system (1983) (1)
Violence and Effects on Children (2001) (1)
The Family: A School for Living. (1976) (1)
Perspectives on Child Maltreatment: Icebergs and Ice Cubes. (1982) (1)
The Battered Baby is Growing Up. (1981) (1)
Why Are Adolescents Violent? Por Que Os Adolescentes São Violentos? (2009) (1)
Helping Adolescents at Risk: Prevention of Multiple Problem Behaviors, Anthony Biglan, Patricia Brenner, Sharon Foster, Harold Holder. The Guilford Press, New York (2004), 318 pp., ISBN: 1572309733 (2005) (1)
The Abuse and Neglect of Special Children: An Introduction to the Issues (2017) (1)
The Emotionally Battered Child (2013) (1)
Understanding criminal 'choices' in context. (2011) (1)
A Shift From Traditional to Nontraditional Families: Is the Direction a "Good" One? (2000) (1)
A Feminist Perspective on the Psychology of Sexual Abuse. (1989) (1)
Faculty evaluation: a tool for eliciting desired behaviors. (1976) (1)
A Vision of Family Policy for the 21st Century (1996) (1)
Is Good Science Bad Sexual Politics? Commentary on ”Mothers' Role in Incest (1993) (1)
Power Struggles. Beginnings Workshop. (2001) (1)
Book ReviewChild Abuse and Neglect: A Medical Reference (1982) (1)
Ecological Models of Adolescent Development (2020) (1)
Adult Involvement in the Social Maps of Youth: The Transition from Elementary to Secondary School. (1978) (1)
Trauma at the Heart of Forensic Developmental Psychology (2020) (1)
Implications of Machine-Learning, Internet-Tests to Save Lives and Money: "7-Point Violence Profile:" Review of 212 Studies, 320,051 Persons, Over 95 Years, With a Cross-Validation Among 136 Homicidal, Overdosing- Substance-Abusing, Sex-Offending, (2019) (1)
Psychological Maltreatment of Children and Youth: A Historical Perspective on the Right to Be Emotionally Safe (2021) (0)
Conclusion: The Prognosis for Troubled Youth in Troubled Families (2017) (0)
Walking with Hope and Dharma: Are Dogs Enlightened? Are Humans? (2011) (0)
Mapping Stress in Childhood. (1993) (0)
2. Corporal Punishment in Ecological Perspective (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
6. Tales of Rehabilitation, Transformation, and Redemption (2019) (0)
Teaching developmental psychology to adults with field experience as a vehicle for resource development (1977) (0)
The Meaning of School Success. (1976) (0)
3. Moral Damage: Growing Up with a War Zone Mentality (2019) (0)
Risk and Protective Factors for Homophobic Bullying in Schools: An Application of the Social–Ecological Framework (2012) (0)
Children of battered women: Peter G. Jaffe, David A. Wolfe and Susan Kaye Wilson, Sage, Newbury Park, CA, 1990. 132 pp. Hardcover $19.95, Softcover $12.95 (1991) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (1988) (0)
Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front, and: Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States (review) (2011) (0)
The Impact of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Reducing Child Maltreatment (2021) (0)
How do you stop someone from having sex with children (1990) (0)
4. Emotional Damage: The Consequences of Unresolved Trauma (2019) (0)
"Review of Damaged parents: An anatomy of neglect" by James Garbarino: Erratum. (1982) (0)
Perspectives on improving education: Project talent's young adults look back: Edited by John S. Flanagan New York: Praeger, 1978, 113 + x pp., $18.95 (1979) (0)
Teaching Child Development from an Ecological Perspective. (1986) (0)
War and Communal Violence: Challenges for Children's Development (1996) (0)
ommentary oordinated and evidence-based policy and practice for protecting hildren outside of family care * eil (2012) (0)
The latchkey issue. (1988) (0)
Perspectives on Adverse Childhood Experiences (2023) (0)
Comprar No Place to Be a Child: Growing Up in a War Zone | Nancy Dubrow | 9780787943752 | Wiley (2007) (0)
Those Who Ignore the Past.... (2000) (0)
Children and families in communities: Theory, research, policy and practice (2008) (0)
Violence against Children (2003) (0)
The Role of the Educators (2017) (0)
1. The Concept of Choice in the Criminal Justice System (2019) (0)
Knowledge for what? An examination of the uses and users of social science research (1981) (0)
Child Development : * Children : Elementary Secondary Education : * Environmental Influences : * Family Role : * Neighborhoods ; School Community Relationship : School Role : Socialization : Urban Areas : (2011) (0)
The psychologically battered child: toward a definition. (1989) (0)
Comprar A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment | Garbarino, James | 9781441967893 | Springer (2010) (0)
Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect@@@Child Abuse: An Agenda for Action@@@Parents and Protectors: A Study in Child Abuse and Neglect (1981) (0)
What do you Call a Small Group Containing Children and Adults (1983) (0)
Adolescents in Stepfamilies (2017) (0)
A Review of the Costs of Assault, Homicide, Mass Murder and Pedophilia with Implications for the Insurance Industry and the U.S. Roman Catholic Church: A Rationale for Using Computer Tests and Machine Learning Equations (2022) (0)
75.1 An Overview of Child Psychological Abuse (2017) (0)
The Youngest Victims (2020) (0)
Knowledge in the service of children and youth: A personal introduction (1981) (0)
Characteristics of High-Risk Families: Parental and Adolescent Perspectives (2017) (0)
The War-Zone Mentality - Mental Health Effects of Gun Violence in U.S. Children and Adolescents. (2022) (0)
Child sexual abuse: New theory and research: David Finkelhor. Free Press, New York, 260 pp. 1984, $22.50. (1986) (0)
Television and vocational socialization (1975) (0)
An Introduction to Troubled Youth in Troubled Families (2017) (0)
Development of Children From a Global Perspective. (1995) (0)
Identifying the Stress Points in Parent-Child Relations. (1985) (0)
Honey and Vinegar: Changing People's Minds About Preventing Child Abuse. (1992) (0)
What Is the Opposite of Trauma? The Positive Power of Transformational Grace (2011) (0)
Can There Ever Be Enough Me? Narcissism and the Positive Death of Self (2011) (0)
Children of the great transition. (2003) (0)
Adolescents and War: How Youth Deal With Political Violence – Edited by Brian K. Barber (2010) (0)
A Psychological Autopsy of Virginia Woolf. (1990) (0)
RESEARCH Latchkey Children: The Fastest^Growing Special Interest Group in the Schools (2016) (0)
Nine Bad Things That Almost Happened, and Many More That Did: Getting to the Other Side of Trauma (2011) (0)
7 – The Issue Is Human Quality: In Praise of Children (1981) (0)
Playing Out the Melodramas of Adolescence. (1987) (0)
Social Class and the Child's View of the Family. (1987) (0)
School-Based Interventions (2003) (0)
Intervention in Child Maltreatment. (1983) (0)
Child maltreatment and the mass media. (1985) (0)
8. Making Sense of the Senseless: Understanding and Preventing Killing in America (2019) (0)
7. Guns Don’t Kill People—People with Guns Kill People (2019) (0)
Children’s Rights and the Circle of Caring (2018) (0)
Child abuse: An interactional event: Alfred Kadushin and Judith A. Martin with the assistance of James McGloin. Columbia University Press, New York, 1981. 304 pp. $32.50 (1983) (0)
Children’s Rights and the Circle of Caring (2018) (0)
The Costs and Benefits of Obliviousness: Growing Up in the 1950s (2011) (0)
Finding High Risk Persons with Internet Tests to Manage Risk—A Literature Review with Policy Implications to Avoid Violent Tragedies, Save Lives and Money (2016) (0)
Child abuse prediction: Policy implications: Edited by Raymond H. Starr, Jr., Ballinger Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982. 256 pp. $24.50 (1984) (0)
A guide for dealing with sexual abuse. (1990) (0)
Growing Up with Fear (2020) (0)
Introduction: Becoming an Expert Witness (2019) (0)
Children’s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thrivingby Jody Heymann with, Kristen McNeill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 394 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-674-06681-6. (2014) (0)
In a Psychologically Toxic Environment it's Normal to be Crazy. (1991) (0)
2. Keeping Killers inside Our Circle of Caring (2019) (0)
A Review of Bullying Prevention and Intervention in South Korean Schools: An Application of the Social–Ecological Framework (2013) (0)
A Cultural and Psychosocial Perspective on Mass Murder (2017) (0)
What Does It Mean to Live an “Extraordinary Life?” (2011) (0)
The Art of the Obvious: Developing insight for psycho-therapy and everyday life: Bruno Bettelheim and Alvin A. Rosenfeld. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY. 1993, 247 pp (1995) (0)
"Basic Transportation" for Dealing with Child Maltreatment. (1984) (0)
5. “If You’re Old Enough to Do the Crime, You’re Old Enough to Do the Time” (2019) (0)

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